There were a few scattered storms early in the month, sufficient to send the wildebeest back into the Serengeti - by the 15th there was hardly a wildebeest in the Mara. 

October was exceptionally dry, with only 42 mm recorded at Serena, some parts of the Triangle had more but other areas missed the rain completely.

October was the driest month of the year, we had intermittent showers at the beginning but then it became very hot and dry.

There was a heavy rainstorm on the 3rd and an even heavier storm on the 17th.

We had scattered showers and thunderstorms throughout the month, sufficient to keep the grass green and some wildebeest herds around. However, most of them moved off by the 20th.

There were a few days of reasonable, but isolated, rain from the 9th, mainly along the escarpment.  

The a few remnants of the wildebeest migration have left the Tanzanian border and moved up towards Serena.  One crossing near the Mara bridge resulted in at least 300 wildebeest deaths. 

October was on the whole very dry, with one or two isolated thunderstorms. 

There were heavy storms in the first week of October, for two days around the 20th  and then heavy storms for the last two days of the month. 

We started receiving very heavy rain/hail storms on the 9th along the escarpment – the first significant rainstorms all year. 

The first three weeks of October were dry – we then had heavy rain for a few days.  It would appear that the rains are starting reasonably early this year, usually an indication that wew are in for heavy and sustained rains.

There were a few isolated storms in the middle of October but on the whole October was a dry month.

The dry weather continued well into October, drying up springs and most of the water courses.  The spring at Oloololo Gate dried up for the second time this year. 

There was light rain almost every day in early October, with a few heavy thunderstorms along the Tanzanian border. 

There was some exceptionally heavy rain in the first few days of October.  We then had a week of beautiful weather before the rains returned on the 16th. 

October was one of the driest months for years with a few scattered showers at the beginning and end of the month.

The rains continued daily throughout most of October, with some exceptionally heavy storms along the escarpment and isolated storms over the rest of the Triangle.

The heavy rains continued into early October.  The weather then cleared and we had three weeks of glorious, sunny weather, interspersed with one or two days of rain – that is, until the 26th, when we had some exceptionally heavy storms and sustained rain for three days. 

The weather was beautiful for the first ten days of October and then the weather changed – it started raining and we had a week of very unsettled weather before the weather cleared again for a week. 

October, was for the most part, dry, with a few isolated storms early in the month.  The